January 14th 2024

Today was coronation day! This was a really big deal in Copenhagen as the queen abdicated her throne and her son took over. It was so awesome to be in the city when this historical moment was happening. We didn't get to see much as there were crowds and crowds of people as pictured in the photo gallery we did get to see some of the horses that the police were riding on which was pretty awesome :). This all occurred around 2:00 ish so so much happened before. My roommate and I got ready and headed to a cute bakery about a block and a half away I tired the pastry that was the baristas favorite and it was very sweet and would not be able to tell you what it was called. We then walked back to our apartment and enjoyed our tea and little treat before heading on a scavenger hunt with what was supposed to be 6 people, but we made it a big group and it was basically our whole floor. This was really fun because we got to get to know each other really well and the city. We learned a lot about the recycling they do here in Denmark which is quite extensive and even took our first ride on the metro in copenhagen (my first time ever on anything like it). We didn't take it on our way downtown because it was so packed for the coronation so we took about a 45 minute walk. We hadn't originally planned to stop to see any of it, but we thought it was pretty important to. After about 30 minutes trying to get a view of anything we gave up and headed to the DIS student hub. We get a tour of the hub along with where any classes may be held which is super exciting as we get to start school on the 18th! We finally hit the metro for the way back to our apartment which was a really fun experience and we only have to change trains (or subways or whatever) once which will make an easy commute. We took about a 30-45 minute break before we were onto the next thing: groceries and shopping! We needed a few more things for the room and food to cook so we went to the mall. We left around 4:10 and it's only about a 2 minute walk away, but unfortunately the mall closed at 5:00 so we will be back another day. I have never had to cook for myself so this first round of grocery shopping was quite interesting. I grabbed enough for a couple of days and for lunches on my first two days so I didn't have to worry about it, but it's so close we'll be able to stop in for whatever we want for dinner that night if we choose! Tonight we actually didn't even make the food we bought and went to a cute burger shop and spent about 3 hours just talking. Naturally nobody in my group has been to south dakota so a lot of conversation was based around the fact it felt like -47 degrees Fahrenheit there and was a good old 33 degrees here. After dinner I sat with some of the people with fifth floor and we broke out a puzzle and if you know anything about me I love puzzles. We listened to music and just chit chatted while doing the puzzle for about 2 hours. It's been really awesome meeting new people and getting to know everyone so I can't wait to meet more people once our classes start! I also got to facetime alex for the first time today which I caught him at the end of practice, but it was so nice to see him and hear his voice :) long distance for 4 months is going to be so strange to us. 

PS I'm hoping to write every few days and for sure at least once a week, but if there's another day this full like today I will be updating you all more :)